Cigar.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEREMIAI'I DENNIS TYNN, OF SPOONER, WISCONSIN. A

ACIGAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,217, dated February 25, 1902. Application tiled October 19,1901. Serial No. 79,239. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J EREMIAH DENNIS TY- NEN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Spooner, in the county of Washburn and State of W'isconsin, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

It is Well known to smokers that a cigar loses much of its strength, iiavor, and aroma from the evaporation of its moistureand aromatic principles and its exposure to the varyf ing atmospheric conditions. It has been sought to avoid this by wrapping the cigar in tin-foil, paper, and other materials; but it has also been found that these very wrappers impair the iavor and quality of the cigar,since tobacco is a very peculiar and sensitive product and takes offense from contact with all foreign materials.

My invention is designed to make available the advantages of this inclosure and protection of the cigar, but without contaminating or impairing its iavor in any degree; and to this end it consists in a cigarA made with two tobacco Wrappers,V one wound reversely to the other, and the outer wrapper being made of a certain quality of tobacco of no value for smoking, but of especial value for hermetically sealing the cigar proper, and designed to be taken'o by the smoker and cast away before smoking the cigar, as will be more fully described with reference to the drawing, in which the gure is a side View of a doublewrapper cigar with the left-hand half of the outside temporary Wrapper torn away.

A is a cigar made in the usual way, with a ller, a binder, and a wrapper.

B is a second outside wrapper, also made of tobacco, but wrapped about the cigar A in the reverse direction to that of the inside wrapper, so that the spiral layers of the outside temporary Wrapper cross those of the inside permanent wrapper. The object of' this reversal of direction of wrapping is to prevent the true inside wrapper of the cigar from peeling off along with the outside temporary wrapper when the latter is removed. If the outside protection-wrapper were Wrapped in the same direction or parallel with the inside -Wrapper, the unwinding of the outside wrapper would be in the same direction with that of the inside wrapper, and if there were any adhesion, which might occur from the fact that both Wrappers are of tobacco and pressed in the box into somewhat close union, the :removal of the outside wrapper would be apt to peel off the inside Wrapper, in part at least, and thus by opening air-leakages along the length of the cigar prevent it from drawing well. 4'The outer wrapper B, therefore, when applied to the cigar A is started to be wrapped at b around the mouth end o of the cigar and is finished at b,'or the lighting end of the cigar, where the outside wrapper is twisted into a little teat or twist, and when the cigar is to be smoked this little twist is unwound and its outer wrapper -is thereby quickly loosened from the entire cigar and may be cast away.

For t-he purposes of my invention I select a certain kind of tobacco for the outside wrapper,such as contains a large amount of gummy matter, for the reason that this furnishes a more impervious covering and one which more nearly seals the cigar hermetically and at the same time preserves the full avor of the cigar within and repels atmospheric iniiuences. Ohio or Kentucky tobacco is of this nature and is well adapted, not only because it possesses this gummy quality, but because also it is cheaper, being unfit for` burning, as its heavyl proportion of gum prevents it from holding its fire.

The advantages of my double-wrapper cigar are that it preserves indefinitely the full flavor and quality of the cigar proper and being of a kindred or like nature does not by contact impair the cigar or rob it of any of its desirable qualities. Furthermore, the outer wrapper is tough and acts as a protection to the cigar when in the pocket, so that it does not breakup, and again the smoker always gets a cigar in his mouth that is fresh, clean, free from fly-specks, and sanitary-ei. e., it has never been contaminated by the touch of the hands of a clerk or by disease germs from customers who may handle many before select-ing one to smoke.

I am aware that a cigar has been made by first forming a tube of two cross-windings on a mandrel and then packing loose tobacco in `this tube; but one of these wrappings` was not to be removed, as in my case, and, furthermore, it was not made of a different quality of tobacco for the purposes of a protection,

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as in my invention. Besides, both the Wrappers, with their large amount of paste, had to be smoked, and this Would not be tolerated by the smoker. Furthermore, my outside Wrapper is not pasted along its edges, but is only secured at the tip, so that it can be easily tornoff.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A cigar having two tobacco Wrappers the outer one of which is made of a quality of leaf having a larger proportion of gummy matter than the inner one, so as to forni a more impervious easing, said outer Wrapper 

